McCarthyism

After 70 years, Albert Maltz’s ‘The Morrison Case’ gets its U.S. premiere

November 3, 2023 By Patrick Chura

The final words of the drama prompt the audience to think about patriotism.

Trump hints at deportation of Communists if he’s re-elected

June 28, 2023 By C.J. Atkins

Deflecting attention from his own criminal indictment, the former White House occupant brings back the Red Scare.

The Ohio woman who beat the Red Scare blacklists

April 10, 2023 By Taylor Dorrell

Anna Hass Morgan’s legacy, which has been largely wiped from local memory in Columbus, should be restored to its proper place.

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist

October 13, 2022 By Ed Rampell

Members of the motion picture industry who refused to “cooperate” by informing on themselves and others about their leftist politics were forbidden from working in the movies.

Stefan Heym: A central witness to both fascism and socialism in Germany

December 17, 2021 By John Ellison

Fleeing the Nazis to become a best-selling author in the U.S., then forced by McCarthyism to settle in the GDR in the '50s, he would go on to open the reunified German parliament in 1994.